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Lisa De Bortoli; Catherine Underwood – Australian Council for Educational Research, 2025
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international comparative study that assesses how well 15-year-olds, who have nearly completed compulsory schooling in most participating educational systems, can use their knowledge and skills to meet real-world opportunities and challenges. In each cycle of PISA, students are…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Secondary School Students, International Assessment, Achievement Tests
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John Jerrim; Philip D. Parker; Nikki Shure – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2023
This paper investigates the phenomena of overclaiming -- the propensity for individuals to claim more knowledge about an issue or topic than they really (or could possibly) do. Using Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data from nine Anglophone countries and over 40,000 young people, we examine teenagers' propensity to claim…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Achievement Tests
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Ata Baran, Ayla; Kabael, Tangül – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate eighth grade students' mathematical communication competency, affective characteristics, and the differentiation in affective characteristics across their communication competency levels. The mixed method sequential explanatory design was used. The quantitative data were collected from 140 students…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Student Characteristics, Student Motivation
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Nagy, Tímea; Csernoch, Mária; Biró, Piroska – Education Sciences, 2021
Previous research proved that teaching spreadsheeting from a programming perspective is much more effective than the widely accepted tool-centered surface approach methods. Spreadsheeting as an introductory programming approach allows students to build up schemata leading to contextualized, concept-based problem-solving. Furthermore, it provides…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Efficacy, Gender Differences, Programming
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Thien, Lei Mee; Darmawan, I. Gusti Ngurah; Ong, Mei Yean – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2015
Background: The results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 showed that Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand underperformed and were positioned in the bottom third out of 65 participating countries for mathematics, science, and reading literacies. The wide gap between these three countries and the top performing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
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Ozgen, Kemal – Journal of International Education Research, 2013
The aim of this study is to investigate high school student's self-efficacy beliefs in mathematical literacy (ML) and to explore their views on the connections between mathematics and the real world according to their levels of ML self-efficacy beliefs. Both quantitative and qualitative data was collected from 40 high school students. Data…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Mathematics Skills, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Pavlekovic, Margita, Ed. – Online Submission, 2011
In the monograph The Math Teacher (following the Third International Scientific Colloquium Mathematics and Children in 2011), the term "teacher" designates a person who teaches mathematics, and the context of each article reveals whether this implies the teacher at a pre-school institution, a school or a university instructor. In…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Mathematics Education, Action Research, Self Efficacy